Sources

Data sources and licences

Boundaries and postcode areas

Municipal boundaries (565 municipalities, situation 2025) and postcode areas: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). We simplified the shapes for fast display; postcode areas are approximate.

Population and area

Population on 1 January of each year from 2016 to 2026, per municipality within the boundaries of 2025: Statbel (Belgian statistical office), be.STAT, table “Population by place of residence, nationality, marital status, age and sex”, last updated by Statbel on 10 June 2026. Official area per municipality: Statbel, as published by Eurostat in the Local Administrative Units (LAU) 2024 tables; for the municipalities that merged on 1 January 2025 we added up the areas of the former municipalities.

Names

Names in English, Dutch, French and German: Wikidata (CC0). NIS codes from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

Using our maps

You may use the maps on this site, including the SVG downloads, for any purpose, also commercially, provided you credit: “Map: mapofbelgium.be · © OpenStreetMap contributors”. The downloadable files already contain this credit.

Distances

Distances are great-circle distances (as the crow flies) between the geographic centres of the municipalities, calculated by us.